Anyone using the IS uncapped package for 1300?

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Hi

Just wondering if anyone here is on the uncapped IS solution? i am thinking of getting and am wondering how good the service is.... specifically on www ftp and mail - not to concerned about torrents but the www and ftp are essential.

thanks peter
 
Can you post a link to the ISP's that provide this service.
 
We use it at work. I don't play games on it, but for www and ftp it's perfect. We also host our own Exchange server, and the receive times for e-mail is VERY impressive!! (http://www.sawaste.co.za/ is hosted here on the other side of the line, and the response on that is pretty good as well)

One thing I've always liked about IS is the way they communicate with their customers... When there's potentially a problem that might affect their customers, they know about it before we do. :-)

Of course, IMHO they have always been a bit expensive, their ADSL price isn't bad, considering...

Cheers
Graham
 
This explains the biggest problem of the telecoms industry in South Africa: everybody complains and bitches about the high prices, BUT STILL ORDER AND USE IT! As long as this habit is not broken, we can forget about prices coming down! Normal economical aspects like pricing according to demand are totally ignored in our country! If I have a product, and want to sell it with 1000% profit, and nobody wants it, I have to drop the price to generate better interest! But, if there are some fools who buy it anyway at the exhorbitant prices, I would be stupid to drop the price. :confused:

My 2c...
 
There's a train of thought that's very popular in this country (Well, worldwide, but it seems more prevalent in this country)... I've seen it with software, I've seen it with computer hardware, I've seen it with some other things as well.

"If it's cheap, it must be crap!"

This is particularly true of businesses. Home users are starting to get more and more savvy. But businesses tend not to have the time to shop around and find out all the spec's of a product, so they rely on its price to let them know how good it is.

I read this article awhile back about pricing, which I found very interesting:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ry/en-us/dnsoftware/html/software08052004.asp

P.S. the above philosophy is (I believe) one of the reasons why Linux is still not a commercially viable OS... But that's another story. :P
 
ettubrute - this is correct, this is also the reason we need a competent government to help in this struggle. Atm we have high prices but we have no choice but to end up paying for it.

Its the governments job to introduce competition to the level where price wars start between competition. This is not the consumers job, we pay taxes for alot of things, and I presume this would be one of the reasons.
 
We sell the IS uncapped, and have a number of clients on it. It's a very good service in general, and unshaped (at the moment). I wouldn't recommend it for international gaming though - your international latency is too high. Note that the international bandwidth goes out via satellite.
 
Silent_Bob said:
can sum1 state how it is for games plz, for local and int, like cs, wow and gulid wars. ta
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There's such high latency on those IS accounts, I doubt the uncapped is any different.
 
matt156 said:
We sell the IS uncapped, and have a number of clients on it. It's a very good service in general, and unshaped (at the moment). I wouldn't recommend it for international gaming though - your international latency is too high. Note that the international bandwidth goes out via satellite.
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do you have a link?

Are the IS and UUNET resellers some kind of a top secret???
Can't remember in how many threads people have asked for links, and I still haven't seen any. Does anyone have those links and is willing to share them?

Thanks
 
not at all. Currently uunet are no longer selling uncapped accounts. They were selling them for about 700 a month but they are heavily shaped for everything excluding mail and http ( i think ftp might be okay well). Their network got congested and now they dont sell them anymore.... for the moment.

IS on the other hand as far i as heard sell a nice package. Its about 1300 + vat a month + telkom rental and thats 512kb/s link i heard its not shapped at all (or minor) but its all satelite traffic so nothing for the gamers there.

Also nice bonus you get 4 fixed ips - if the whole price per gig bull**** arrives this is definitly my next best option. I would have loved the 1mbit from IS but @ 2300 for just the account! its out of my price range.

you can go to www.hellkom.co.za and look up the on the left under uncapped providers all the ones over R1000 are pretty much resellers of the IS package. Mweb also resells this package and a couple of others. You can also contact IS directly and buy the package.

www.is.co.za and look for the number to phone.
 
Thanks for the info, really appreciated. I'm not a gamer and I couldn't care less about P2P (although I think that port shaping is pathetic), at the moment I have 30G account from Axxess and as I was thinking of ordering a second one, all this talk about 1st of November started so I put everything on hold for now.

I'm trying to formulate some sort of a plan B beacuse if the new pricing structure becomes a reality R2000.00+ for 30G is just too steep.

Thanks again.
 
Does anyone have an idea of how P2P, particularly emule and torrents, performs on IS uncappped ADSL? Is P2P unshaped?

I am thinking of moving over to uncapped IS (from 30Gb SAIX) as long as P2P is still usable and not shaped to hell.

Why is it that IS supplies the router/modem and remote admin's it?
 
Currently the service is unshaped - P2P seems to work fine. Of course, there are no guarantees, being broadband and all.

If you are interested in purchasing, you can go to:

http://www.imagine-ips.co.za/za/p28.html

The router rental is included, and 4 fixed IPs
 
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